Gastonia

College Professor Charged With Killing Just-Adopted 6-Week-Old Boy
Child Abuse

A college professor who appeared in a video with his wife to raise funds for an adoption has now been charged with killing the 6-week-old boy, who was adopted just weeks ago. Investigators were called to Van Erick Custodio’s Gastonia, North Carolina, home on April 1 for a child in cardiac arrest. The baby boy …

[LISTEN] Park employee calls 911 about missing autistic boy, later says dad ‘didn’t act like a concerned parent’
Missing
September 26, 2018

[LISTEN] Park employee calls 911 about missing autistic boy, later says dad ‘didn’t act like a concerned parent’

Federal investigators released an audio clip from the initial call to authorities last week reporting the disappearance of a 6-year-old North Carolina boy. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Maddox Ritch vanished Saturday afternoon while he and his family were at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia. The missing boy, who reportedly has autism, was last seen with …